I totally feel your pain. It has been really heart-breaking for me to all the kind of rhetoric we’ve been hearing for Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg. Even Tarantino’s whole diatribe about movies shot on digital not being real “movies.” It just seems so crazy to have people who are empirically brilliant STORYTELLERS equate the medium a movie is shot on, or whether or not it is released day and date, as whether or not it’s “cinema.”

In answer to your question, that’s a very good question. I could see that being part of it for sure. An inherent distrust for that system. The irony is, they have made their fair share of “studio system” movies. I mean, come on, Netflix is turning Hollywood upside down and as great as much of their content is, make no mistake, they too are following a formula. And Scorsese had no trouble taking money from them to make “The Irishman” (which I can’t wait to see, by the way). Netfix and Amazon are the new studios of the world.

All that to say, who knows what they were thinking! :)